On Tue, Jan 5, 2010 at 9:39 AM, Anthony <[email protected]> wrote: > >> To put it in other words for you, "as to what constitutes a copyright >> infringement", I'm more confident in the consensus legal opinion than >> in my own legal opinion. > > I wasn't aware that there was a consensus legal opinion as to what > constitutes a copyright infringement with regard to casual non-systematic > repetition of street names found in an online map. > > The only "consensus" that I'm aware of is the position of a large majority > of (mostly non-lawyer) OSM mappers "to err on the safe side", by which they > mean to never use copyrighted sources without explicit permission.
And I am more confident in siding with the "large majority of OSM mappers", than to do otherwise based on my own legal opinion. I "find it incredibly strange" that you "find it incredibly strange". Anyway, let's move on. _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

